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Blackboard to Sell Open LMS Product for $31.7 Million

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Blackboard, a Reston, Va.-based based provider of learning management software for K-12, higher ed, government and businesses, has agreed to sell its Open LMS business to Learning Technologies Group, or LTG, a London-based conglomerate of workplace learning software services. LTG will pay $31.7

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4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider

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One name floated by company watchers is Ray Henderson, the former chief products officer at ANGEL Learning. After ANGEL was acquired by Instructure rival Blackboard, Henderson served as president of learning platforms for Blackboard until 2013. Thoma Bravo is unlikely to break Instructure down and sell its remains.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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Dream Academy students—chosen through a mix of GPA, interview, teacher recommendations, and academic portfolio review—can graduate from high school with an associate degree in social science. They use the Blackboard platform to communicate with professors and engage fellow students in their courses. TECH USED ?

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Teacher-Student Digital Communication Makes for Good Learning

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So explained Dr. Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer of Project Tomorrow, in an edWebinar sponsored by Blackboard , examining findings from the program’s 2020 annual research project, Speak Up , for which 10,000 K-12 students nationwide shared their preferences and expectations for two-way communications with their teachers.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard.

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